"What harm did he do her in consoling himself, since he thought she was dead?" said Saffredent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre] Reference

Page 114 monster task-master, and no one to speak a consoling word to her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves.] Reference

Obama spent taxpayer dollars in Spain allegedly "consoling" a friend who lost her father.    From Wordnik.com.  [Liberally Conservative] Reference

 His eyes seem to narrow with each consoling word.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death of Tarzan] Reference

These consoling reflections became more and more confused.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In his conversations, Kerry sounded like the consoling one.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I'M GOING TO LEARN'] Reference

These remarks were very consoling but did not comfort her as much as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

The consoling fumes have long taught me to be tolerant and broad-minded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prohibition Redux] Reference

"How much more consoling is the belief of my people," I replied, triumphantly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference

Getting the call from the mysterious man turned out to be unexpectedly consoling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Honor Thy Father] Reference

A dream, and yet a reality, consoling as a ray of light after a hideous nightmare.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The family here spent Wednesday consoling each other with stories and photos of Edgar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edgar N. Roberts, Soldier Thought To Be Killed In Afghanistan Blast Still Alive] Reference

     Zora, in a consoling tone I'd never heard her use before said, “Okay, Mom.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference

But De Thou, embracing and consoling his friend, answered, raising his eyes from the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Just as she finished this consoling address the door opened, and in came Will, the shepherd.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference

Her consoling coos had stopped and she hung gracelessly over the back of the climbing animal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juanita] Reference

The most shattering and consoling book I read this year. 5 "Winter in the Blood" by James Welch.    From Wordnik.com.  [BOOKS: Louise Erdrich] Reference

I tried, by way of consoling her, to draw her attention to the quantities of presents she had received.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Healing, consoling, tender to the unfortunate, even to the evil, love engenders light beneath her feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Simple Life] Reference

So they sweetened the days when permission to visit was denied by consoling each other across the alley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicken Little Jane] Reference

I even ran my hand through this strange man's hair as if I were the mature, consoling person in the room.    From Wordnik.com.  [SEPARATION ANXIETY] Reference

"Yes, Julien, you have the means of consoling me, you have it," said he in a voice again hoarse with emotion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

But tell me, noble Goethe, was there no more consoling voice in the religious murmur of your old German forests?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

When his mother wanted to rush from France to his bedside, he said no — he knew he would end up consoling her.    From Wordnik.com.  [I See, Said the Blind Man] Reference

The young chaplain came over and took her in his arms, consoling her grief as tears ran down her soft, red cheeks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sad News] Reference

She seemed to feel how much better and more consoling they were, than the superstitions in which she had been educated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

Shortly after 4 p.m., he took time to send a consoling e-mail to a friend who had just watched his mother die of cancer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jfk Jr.'S Final Journey] Reference

Jim Guy Tucker in a consoling phone call to Little Rock just hours after Tucker had been convicted for conspiracy and fraud.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drip, Drip, Drip] Reference

In fact they are occasionally apt to pull in entirely opposite directions, a method of procedure which is far from consoling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference

"The Bear" was part teddy, part grizzly, chewing out persistent reporters one moment and consoling a terrified grunt the next.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mountain Of A Man] Reference

The cross on the Crusaders 'shields is "other" than the one on whom the cancer patient fixes in desperate and consoling prayer.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Long Road To Reconciliation] Reference

Lately, he's taken to consoling a younger man, an Alzheimer's victim like himself, who doesn't like the idea of adult day care.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Home Away From Home] Reference

Later, half-interviewing, half-consoling the young man my daughter's age, I thought about their lost innocence -- and mine, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Moment The Magic Ended] Reference

Some day, maybe, but not now -- it is all too dear and consoling to breathe the same air that sustained me in my perfect happiness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference

And with this consoling thought he left me -- left me in darkness and despair, to combat, as best I could, the horrors of starvation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference